Vinay Palakkode
Builder (Stealth)
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolVinay Palakkode is an AI engineering and robotics leader with 11 years of experience building production-grade perception and ML systems for consumer and automotive platforms. He led end-to-end architecture and fleet deployments at Rivian, moving a legacy perception stack to a BEV fusion design and co-designing next-gen autonomy silicon requirements. At Apple he incubated and scaled deep learning features for Apple Vision Pro, optimizing models for custom heterogeneous silicon to hit sub-watt power and real-time performance. Now building in stealth on AI-native workflows for risk modeling, he specializes in taking frontier research through MVP to functional architecture and revenue-generating products. Vinay blends hardware-aware model engineering, compute strategy, and organizational leadership—having built and scaled multi-disciplinary teams and automated data pipelines that cut OPEX by millions. He pairs Carnegie Mellon–level research rigor with a pragmatic product focus that consistently turns complex ML systems into deployable, monetizable capabilities.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (BTech) Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (BTech) Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering at University of CalicutMaster's Degree Electrical and Computer Engineering, Master's Degree Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University
English, Hindi, Malayalam, Tamil
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Github Skills (4)
machine-learning6
caffe5
deep-learning5
pytorch4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
vinaypalakkode/Road-Crack-Detection
Apr 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:49 commits, 44 pushes, 2 branches in 8 days
vinaypalakkode/Parallel-Seam-Carving
Apr 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:22 pushes, 2 branches in 15 days
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